Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay, India. His father was a lawyer turned businessman, and his mother a teacher. He says they gave him his gift for storytelling. “Both my parents were good at it ...

Salman Rushdie was a hero for Yasmin Alibhai-Brown ... I said: 'I'm a Muslim. My mother's Muslim. My family's Muslim. The white liberals I worked with were shocked. They'd never seen me that ...